[TC] capture a earth lifter

[Ravenous6]

I try to capture a earth lifter but it is just impossible.i drop my marines infront of the ship and they just hit the schip MAN!!!!And yes i am using the pirat option i caputerd many other ships but it always verry tough.
Its just not working and i don`t want to use the script.
This must be a simple ship no lazers no rockets no marines and it is just not working 3 f... hours.
Major bug with those marines man

[Mouseco]

Obvious things

1] Make sure shields are down (below 8% to be safe),

2] Make sure they are at the target.

3] Make sure you have LOTS of marines


I've just captured a Atmo lifter, but I swear the Terrans have GREAT ship crews cause i lost ALOT of good marines taking the ship

[seperaGG]

And what do you expect? You want TL crew to bail out the ship just because your marine knocked the air lock? Sheesh...

[Ravenous6]

And what do you expect? You want TL crew to bail out the ship just because your marine knocked the air lock? Sheesh...

?
Thats nonsens ofcourse marines burn there way inside they always do!
I gues they use magnetic clamps to stick to the hull
Like i said i captured many ships but this one does not work for me.
Last time the lifter was almost at a copleet stop and the marines where just floating by doing a little sightsee i think

[ivak]

...the marines where just floating by doing a little sightsee i think

This is a known bug. Happens all the time to me when i am trying to board ships from friendly races. Some say it helps to set the race, who owns the ship, to "foe" from the command console of your own vessel.

[dillpickle]

I have just 'acquired' one of these beasties. - I used a couple of boarding pods though, and probably an overly large amount of luck!!

Got it with 100% hull, and one marine lost.

This was my first non-plot boarding attempt, so am feeling rather chuffed!!
Dare I push that luck?? There's a Brigantine all on it's own in Veil of Delusion.....

[StormMagi]

Go for it! you can always reload a save if you fail ^_^

[Orion1632]

where can I find said lifter?

[argon_emperor]

where can I find said lifter?

In any Terran sector with an Orbital Logistics Dock. Might have to scout around a bit, fly toward the planet, eventually you see them.

[paulms1980]

you have 2 make sure your friend/foe setting are set 2 foe 4 the duration of the capture attempt

[1muvwndr]

AFAIK Lifters can't be boarded without pods. It's hull can't be breached even with maxed out mechanics. And even with five 3-4* fighters you're usually gonna lose one or two of them during the boarding.

[PheoniXES]

AFAIK Lifters can't be boarded without pods. It's hull can't be breached even with maxed out mechanics. And even with five 3-4* fighters you're usually gonna lose one or two of them during the boarding.

NOT true.I have boarded 5 Lifters without problems,using only my Hyperion with 5 marines.The trick is to follow the Lifter until it stops and launches the drones.When that happens you have a 1-2 minutes to drop the shields and launch the marines.
It worked every time for me.

[Ravenous6]

tried it with pots but they couldn`t get trough.
Damn tough ships and i thought they where easy

So how long must you follow them when it launches its drones

[1muvwndr]

NOT true.I have boarded 5 Lifters without problems,using only my Hyperion with 5 marines.The trick is to follow the Lifter until it stops and launches the drones.When that happens you have a 1-2 minutes to drop the shields and launch the marines.
It worked every time for me.

So the trick to board a Lifter without pods is to wait until it stops and launches drones?
Anyway, I have 4 Lifters and I tried on each of them the M6 approach but it didn't work. I had to call in the M7M every time.

[Flector]

So the trick to board a Lifter without pods is to wait until it stops and launches drones?

The main point here is that the ship has to be stationary.
I can confirm that lifters sometimes come to a dead stop.

On a note: I tried reducing the hull of the lifter to enable the marines to catch up to it, but this is not possible (the speed of a heavily damaged lifter seems to be sowewhere around 31 m/s and your marines have a max speed which is a couple of m/s below that.

[NeverSnake]

The main point here is that the ship has to be stationary.
I can confirm that lifters sometimes come to a dead stop.

The one I boarded had a dead in space freight drone and remained stationary for an hour until the freight drone timed out so I had plenty of time to attempt to board it. I actually run out of time and had to load a save from when I'd first discovered it and call in my cobra as none of my efforts with a springblossom and 4-5 star marines could get through the hull.

I don't know whether it's possible to recreate a paralysed freight drone manually.

[Razman23]

where can I find said lifter?

In any Terran sector with an Orbital Logistics Dock. Might have to scout around a bit, fly toward the planet, eventually you see them.

Yea, look for a ugly ship that looks like a crab. LOL

[NeverSnake]

where can I find said lifter?

In any Terran sector with an Orbital Logistics Dock. Might have to scout around a bit, fly toward the planet, eventually you see them.

Yea, look for a ugly ship that looks like a crab. LOL

A ship that looked like a crab would be cool, the atmopheric lifter looks like a half-finished reinforced concrete slab.

[Orion1632]

so if you found the lifter's freight drone , and shot it until it moved really slow, then would you have more time to capture the lifter?

you guys have given me some ideas, I think I'll go lifter hunting tonight.

[ubica]

After the Lifter idles for a couple of mniutes it hen starts flying waaay out of sector, and you can capture it with boarding pods with minimum hussle. It won't piss of any sector patrols and cause no rep loss. The only problem is that it flies with max speed witch is 115m/s and that is faster than my Cobra so you should set up an ambush along its way. My only problem was that I have captured it after I have already built pretty much all I have inteneded to build so I don't have much use for it now. Makes great storage ship though (80000 cargo).